MARION'S WALL

by Jack Finney ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1973

The handwriting up there is wallpaper thin -- ""Marion Marsh lived here, June 14, 1926. Read it and weep"" and when Nick and Jan, the young couple who have moved in discover it, they become still more interested in the film star of the '20's who once lived there and died too young. In fact knew Nick's father. In additional point of fact, is all but forgotten. But not quite dead as she keeps taking possession of both young Nick and Jan in an attempt to retrieve just a little of her foreshortened life and career. Finney, an old practitioner in a genre which owes more to Topper than say The Exorcist, tells a pleasantly ensorceling story of a time that was down nostalgia alley at the comer of Sunset and Vine with shades of shades -- Valentino or Renee Adoree or a tough little tigercat called Marion Marsh.

Pub Date: April 1, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION